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AceOfFlames posted:I dont think I am a particularly good engineer tbh. And i cant flash my degree in case some skinhead notices I don’t speak dutch as well as a native and decides to beat me up. If you're skin is white you'll be fine.
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Yep! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima
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Orange Devil posted:Our politicians are reacting to plans of a student strike following the Belgian example by citing the law which makes education mandatory and skipping school illegal. The absolute worst is seeing the scum broadcasting things like "she's just a kid, not an expert so why should we listen PS did you know she's autistic PSPS we heard she got depression sometimes makes u think" like 
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Feb 5, 2019 11:09
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Bedshaped posted:I tend to just automatically assume far-right supporters are old and uneducated. Whereas, it's not really the case in France, Austria, Finland. The far right is extremely aligned with wealth and power. One of the ways they use this is by adopting good PR.
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Feb 5, 2019 17:08
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100YrsofAttitude posted:I know very little about the Troubles, but it has only been 20 years. That's not nearly enough time for people not to pick up arms again. I also don't know much, but recently read Milkman by Anna Burns and its portrayal of what happened to society and people's state of mind was chilling and made me even angrier at Brexit.
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Feb 17, 2019 15:44
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I usually ignore red texts but here it's starting to seem pretty appropriate.
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Feb 18, 2019 15:50
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Blut posted:- For financial integration they demanded an opt out from the Euro for themselves, and legitimized a position outside the Euro for other EU members. And have refused to be involved in any subsequent financial integration like the Fiscal Compact or European Stability Mechanism. Stopped clocks, etc.
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Feb 20, 2019 12:19
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AceOfFlames posted:https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/02/forum-voor-democratie-does-back-a-nexit-party-leader-confirms/ With the way the Dutch government is set up (no first-past-the-post nonsense), the toxic Putin parties can do a lot less damage. Things just splinter, which causes its own issues but lead to stasis/deadlock more than crazy big decisions.
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Feb 22, 2019 11:20
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Orange Devil posted:Nothing bad will come from providing France with cannon fodder to burn in African colonialist ventures. They'll just do what the other governments do and buy more shares in Royal Dutch Shell.
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Mar 5, 2019 09:07
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caps on caps on caps posted:Yes, if you want to go to a reputable university in the EU that holds any international weight for academia, you can not do it for 300€ per month, because that means you are either in Paris, London, Milano/Rome, Madrid/Barcelona or Munich and somesuch. This is not true in the Netherlands or Belgium, for what it's worth, and from my personal and friends' academic experience there's also plenty of opportunities throughout countries like Germany and the UK. It may be that in other countries the picture is different, but I think the attitude that academic excellence is strongly centralised is misled at best and a toxic self-reinforcing view at worst.
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Mar 6, 2019 10:47
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steinrokkan posted:When I went to he UK on Erasmus, the stipend covered all my expenses including a one person bedroom with an individual bathroom at one of the more upscale Uni halls, and I even had some cash left over on return. Theoretical discussion only please, facts are useless.
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Mar 7, 2019 09:26
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First, the idea that only the top 20 universities are worth going to is bullshit. Second, using those rankings in the first place is also bullshit since they are mostly dickwaving nonsense that gives universities' marketing bureaus and management a stick to beat their researchers with. I'm not even going to touch the rest of that post with its just - so explanation of individual success.
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Mar 7, 2019 15:48
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The level of ambition you describe is unhealthy both at a personal and an institutional level. It's not something one should demand of oneself or one's candidates. The fact that there's a few awful elitists out there does not affect the vast majority of people working in academia. I have a pretty large academic network of happily employed people, several of whom are already tenured, who did not need to go to capital cities at any step along the way. Acting like only the "top" x% of European universities is worth going to is just nonsense except perhaps to a small subset of wrongheaded people. In the Netherlands alone you have a bunch of universities like Eindhoven, Enschede, Wageningen and Groningen which all do great work and have pretty low cost of living compared to capital city costs. Finally, this stupid tangent even only came up because you were trying to claim that Erasmus should enable anyone to go to capital cities, whereas I would argue that actually getting people to visit places outside of tourist deathtraps would be way more worthwhile. Cure some of that myopia.
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Mar 7, 2019 16:43
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AceOfFlames posted:Time for my regular question: should I think of an escape plan from the Netherlands? If you're white, no. Otherwise, where even would you go these days?
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Mar 21, 2019 14:51
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Volkskrant is not left at all, it's a boomer paper. It goes something like Actually left - - - > (nrc, trouw) - > Volkskrant - > AD - - - - > telegraaf
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Mar 22, 2019 13:19
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Lord Stimperor posted:Imo De Correspondent is worth reading very often. It's appears very thoroughly researched and their articles come with lots of footnotes and direct links to source and reference material. But you need to either cough up or have someone share their stuff. They have some good writers but the organisation as a whole is very white dudebro. I'm a member but am reconsidering. Especially Rutget Bregman is extremely irritating with his superficial just-so stories. In the meantime I really like One world and Follow the Money for leftist perspective and fact-based investigative journalism respectively.
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Mar 22, 2019 17:04
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Also from my personal experience at least the vast majority of wealthy people has at least one company/foundation that they use to deduct VAT from their taxes again anyway, making it even more regressive.
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Mar 27, 2019 10:03
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AceOfFlames posted:How the gently caress is this legal? How the gently caress does a country go from zero to fash in less than a week and we are not even in a recession yet? The idea that we started at zero is nonsense. Few countries were as accommodating to the Nazis.
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Mar 29, 2019 09:53
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Gort posted:Who owns the newspapers in the Netherlands? Are you like the UK in that the largest ones are owned by foreign fascists? The largest newspaper (De Telegraaf) is literally the one that published Nazi propaganda during WW2. They were officially banned for 30 years but this was unfortunately overturned a lot earlier. They also own and operate a bunch of Breitbart-lites, . Again, the Netherland has more than enough native fascist to not require foreign imports or influence.
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Mar 29, 2019 20:29
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Just FYI, fishmech never gives up. Move on.
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Mar 30, 2019 08:38
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Sulla Faex posted:I don't know if this is the right thread for voting advice, but I can't find the Dutch thread anymore. I did the bare minimum of research and Judith Sargentini from GroenLinks is currently my go-to candidate. Any skeletons in her closet, or is there someone with a more nuanced understanding of the election who can tell me where my vote might be better used? It's here, op.
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May 1, 2019 13:21
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V. Illych L. posted:i know social democrats are worthless and all but have they really not managed to capitalise on "the government literally tried to criminally subvert the state in favour of foreign plutocrats" We're living in the Weimar Republic.
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May 28, 2019 11:11
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Factor_VIII posted:Yeah, I'm sure that that's exactly what every finance minister believes. A sensible first step could be to forgive the debt whose interest is a massive part of that deficit, and/or don't destroy the country through austerity afterwards. Also some actual financial market oversight preventing bullshit bonds and speculation /repackaging of toxic assets like Greek debt so the situation can't occur again. Finally, split the euro so that the Southern economies can be freer to get their economies going again. The unified monetary union has been massively destructive even outside of the awful unelected ECB determining policy.
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May 28, 2019 21:59
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It's stunning to me that someone can look at what's happening in south EU and go 'look! improvement!'
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May 29, 2019 09:05
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Honj Steak posted:The EU is the longest cliffhanger in the history of dramatic writing. Something something white cliffs of Dover
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Aug 29, 2019 10:44
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true.spoon posted:Thanks, this was a good read! My only complaint is that David Davis gets off a bit too easy. Yeah, the author clearly had to downplay some stuff in exchange for access to him, he's quoted more than anyone else. A questionable decision.
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Oct 9, 2019 10:15
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I just wish people paid as much attention to blocking their own fash though its easy to understand why the German ones get more attention
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D. Ebdrup posted:Neither does anyone else, according to several of my Dutch friends. What's going on is the same as everywhere else: creeping fash co-opting centrists.
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Feb 7, 2020 13:57
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I'm sure they will continue to white wash the history of the man though I don't think the Dutch can handle being literally Hitler's Germany in terms of destruction and death done to the Congolese people Are you doing a bit or do you genuinely not know the difference between the Netherlands and Belgium?
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Dawncloack posted:So the summit on the recovery fund is in the shits, right? The austerity assholes seem to be winning, so yes.
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Jul 19, 2020 12:01
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Orange Devil posted:Dutch prime minister is very smugly reporting that no agreement is in sight and no progress is being made. Every year he's in office i discover that no, there are further new and exciting ways for me to hate him and all he stands for.
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Jul 19, 2020 12:59
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V. Illych L. posted:yeah he'd have to gently caress something seriously up domestically - this, too, providing a helpful external enemy to stand up to, is part of the EU's fundamental failure The thing is he already did by delaying the lockdown irresponsibly and turning old people's homes into graveyards. poo poo just slides off him, largely due to complicit media.
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Jul 21, 2020 11:38
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Lord Stimperor posted:This country was faced with killing off its old and immunocompromised and just shrugged its shoulders, never thinking about it again. I used to be proud of our forward-thinking approach to euthanasia. Now I'm a lot more cynical about the reasons behind it. Cheaper to kill off people when they're done.
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Jul 22, 2020 08:40
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oliwan posted:most of this has been systematically eroded during the last 12 years or so. Try since the 70s. Basically the brief progressive period is the anomaly, not the fygm liberalism.
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Jul 23, 2020 14:12
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oliwan posted:I understand what you are trying to say here, but I mean abortion was legalized in the Netherlands in 1984, euthanasia in 2002, and it was the first country to fully legalize same-sex marriage in 2001. "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" -- a recipe for progressiveness 
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Jul 23, 2020 17:12
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oliwan posted:The point is that up until the early 2000s the Netherlands were still signing progressive bills into power. After that this completely changed, and besides eroding social security, which was already heavily underway, it is now also eroding progressive measures from that time. All that's changed is that the mask has come back off. The erosion of things that actually gave people meaningful freedom, e.g. social security and housing, had already set in long before. The rest is just recognising the cultural winds and bending with them.
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Jul 23, 2020 18:22
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Kassad posted:I'm baffled by the unspoken assumption that "working class" = white. Working class areas in cities are almost all mixed since the majority of immigrants are not wealthy so they get crammed in the same neighborhoods as the "native" working class. It's the middle and upper class that can afford to self-segregate. This is a very harmful historical artifact. The only somewhat socialist party in the Netherlands was against work migrants which of course let off a lot of dog whistles and has hung onto representing basically only their shrinking white base, with predictable results. Sad.
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Jul 24, 2020 10:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Economics hasn't been a science for 150 years. It's the reflected sound of underground spirits.
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Aug 25, 2020 15:38
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Somewhat tangential, but I think that pretending that increasing house prices are caused by a scarcity of habitable buildings rather than scarcity of houses that aren't being used as vessels for financial speculation and /or rent seeking is naive at best. There's simply so much money sloshing around in investment funds that it's constricting the options for normal people.
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Haramstufe Rot posted:I think the point I was arguing was so "academic" and overall so unimportant for socialist posters ITT that it essentially was meaningless or misunderstood as "lol socialism bad". At this point, I am just posting things I learned in my readings, just in case it's somehow interesting. Do I summarise it correctly as: "Since a major factor in the failing of the GDR's economy was the fact that it was already locked into some bad practices once people started trying to fix it, a good lesson would be to have a solid economic plan in place in case we ever do manage to have a socialist revolution, since otherwise the emerging society is doomed to fail" ? I think people's objections to this largely boil down to "we could spend time/energy on that or on trying to make that revolution happen", implying that trying to come up with a foolproof plan will take so much time/energy that it's effectively delaying or even cancelling the revolution.
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